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Between 1945 and 1975, both France and Greece developed an interplay between literature and popular music, each making a new national canon. Literature provided the aesthetic criteria, the cultural prestige and the institutional basis for what aspired to be a higher form of popular song. Published poems were turned into popular songs, while a critical discourse, in return, celebrated songwriters not only for being as good as poets, but for bei...

This book establishes a cinematic and cultural history of Greece during the last difficult decade in an engaged and highly original manner.

What connects the early films of Yorgos Lanthimos with Vasilis Kekatos's 2019 Cannes triumph The Distance Between Us and the Sky? What is the lasting legacy of Panos Koutras's 2009 trans narrative Strella: A Woman's Way to gender and sexual identity activism in Greece? What role did cultural collectives play in the formation of a 'weird history' of Greek cinema? How did cinema and other cultural forms respond to a sense of crisis and an ever-e...